[pct-l] Bear Attack.... or Food for thought

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Pvt. Skivvy I mean Bivy
 
Dude thinks they should demote you to sergeant. We had a vote amongst the 
bears and lions you are now a private 
 
I f you want to see the lion that that put hash marks on Pvt.Bivy's skivvies 
click here 
http://dwd.hu/cat.swf Enjoy! ^_~ 
 


A friend and I were hiking mid-day in the middle of Cuyamaca State Park, just 
west of Mt Laguna.  We stopped at this road junction and a couple from 
Austria 
passed us.  After starting up again we were soon about to pass the couple 
when 
they showed us what they had just finished filming with their camcorder.....a 
male cougar.  The next week a lady named Iris was killed by the lion a few 
hundred yards from where we had seen it.

We also came across a dead male in the middle of the Anza-Borrego desert.  
They 
have been eatting the bighorn and we also find bighorn radio collars.  The 
cat 
had a chipped fang.

Now I'm not too scared of bears, but when I saw a female lion cross the trail 
ahead of me in the Lagunas I almost wet myself.  I wouldn't go back to that 
area for a year (by Lake of the Woods).  I put my hands over my head to make 
myself look large, but stayed silent.  I took a couple of steps forward on 
the 
trail, but when the lion made an intercepting step I stopped and walked 
backward (not wishing to turn my back on the beast)until I was hidden by 
brush, 
then turned and ran back to the lake.

Captain Bivy